Weekend Blog Hops - 13 October 2017

Who is your favorite horror/suspense author and why?
Although I liked horror in my early teens, I really don't read much of it anymore. However, I would pick Stephen King. I love his story ideas and he has an excellent grasp of pacing and suspense.






Opening sentence:
The room is an appalling mess. The entire floor seems to be covered with books.





From page 56:
I asked myself what my father would have done if he'd been facing a problem like this--he always considered himself a bit of a philosopher.

My Current Read 
The Alphabet of Heart's Desire
Brian Keaney

A visitor calls with a gift and a message from the past in this literary, historical novel.

In 1802 Thomas de Quincey, a young man from a comfortable middle-class background who would go on to become one of the most celebrated writers of his day, collapsed on Oxford Street and was discovered by a teenage prostitute who brought him back to her room and nursed him to health. It was the beginning of a relationship that would introduce Thomas to a world just below the surface of London's polite society, where pleasure was a tradeable commodity and opium could seem the only relief from poverty. Yet it is also a world where love might blossom, and goodness survive. The lives of a street girl, an aspiring writer, and a freed slave cross and re-cross the slums of London in this novel about the birth of passion, the burden of addiction, and the consolations of literature.